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- Updated: November 30, 2016
The acting president of Chapecoense has revealed his side’s final game of a tragic season could take place as soon as next week with a team made up predominately of youth players.
Nineteen Chapecoense players, as well as a number of team officials, were killed on Tuesday when their plane came down near Medellin in Colombia, where they had been due to play the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional.
The Brazilian Football Federation (CFB) has called for seven days of mourning with the final round of Serie A games, which pits Chapecoense against fourth-placed Atletico Mineiro, having been postponed.
But Ivan Tozzo said on Wednesday that he had spoken to Brazilian Football Confederation (CFB) Marco Polo del Nero, who wants the remaining games played on the weekend of December 11 and 12, less than two weeks after the tragedy.
“He told me: ‘This game has to happen. It has to be a big celebration,'” said Tozzo, who had been vice president under Sandro Pallaoro, another victim of the crash.
“I responded: ‘We haven’t got 11 players.’
“He said ‘Yes, you do. You have …
